It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Let brother help brother.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.